First I wanted to give you a smile, a big smile, because in every circumstance my God is good. Last week, I was listening to the song, ‘Even If’ by Mercy Me on repeat, and it made me think about how in every situation God has brought into my path, there is always a way to praise. There is always a way to shine light on the darkness, to see how God’s goodness can bring hearts to repentance, how God’s goodness can transform hearts. This past week has been a huge lesson to me in why sharing even my struggles have reminded me of God’s goodness. This week I’ve learned that when you share your heartaches with others, you’ll be amazed at how God uses the perspectives and wisdom of others to truly uplift and encourage your heart to look to Jesus.

Sharing your struggles is HARD. It’s like peeling back layers and layers and revealing the underbelly of what you’re really struggling with, the thing that wants to hide in the darkness. Yet my Lord Jesus Christ declares in John 8:12, ‘Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.’ Jesus likes to bring darkness to the light. He convicted people of sin, and He cleansed them of their sin. He forgave them, because Jesus came to set us free of those struggles, those sins that bind us, that want to chain us down to hell and death.

When I’m not sharing my struggles it’s is a way of thinking that Jesus isn’t powerful enough to forgive, to cleanse even the darkest, hardest, most vile parts of me. It’s a way of saying, ‘Has Jesus set me free?’ The truth is 1000% YES. Jesus Christ has set me free from that law of sin and death, and that’s why I need to share that He has set me free and I am never going back to that bondage.

The truth…. The truth is that you should spread love as thick as you would peanut butter or . . . as I remarked to my dad, ‘thicker than peanut butter.’ That was kind of a light introduction for a bit of a heavier post. This has been a powerful thread that has been weaving through my whole recovery journey. All of it comes from Proverbs 27:6, ‘Faithfularethewoundsofafriend; but the kisses ofan enemy are deceitful.’ The truth can really really hurt, and sometimes I cringe to publish a post when I publish it because though it’s truthful and I want to love others, I know it may be painful for others to hear. When I share with someone that to have an eating disorder is to have an idol, that doesn’t feel nice, but it’s something that I needed to hear too.

I wanted to share some of the instances of truth in which God really used them to both prick me, hit me in the head, and make me a completely new person, change my perspective, and turn me around.

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There are other things I like to do besides writing about recovery, and I thought it would be fun to expand the horizons of the blog and talk about other hobbies and activities I’ve really enjoyed lately. I hope it will be a good way to connect with you, and I would really love to hear about what your hobbies are; it’s so fun to learn that there is so much to each person. We all have different hobbies, struggles, strengths, weaknesses, and life journeys we’re on, and it’s really fun for me to get a peek into other’s lives and hear what they love to do and what they’re passionate about every day. (Linking up with Amanda to think out loud and share my favorite hobbies.)

Some of these hobbies have just been hobbies that I’ve picked up over the past few years, and others have been ones that I’ve loved my whole life.

One of my favorite hobbies is hanging out with my family. Over the past few months I’ve been really bad at not loving my family by scrolling through my phone while doing family activities. It’s amazing how God uses other people in my family to exhort me, because one of my sisters would constantly kind of playfully ask why I was on Instagram while watching a movie.

‘Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.’ (Isaiah 40:28-31)

I’m tired . . . a . . . lot. Life makes you tired. I know I’m not in heaven yet with Jesus, so I’m going to be weary, tired still on this earth. This passage from Isaiah 40 makes me amazed and comforts me that God is never tired, that God is nothing like me. I’ve figured out that I would not make a good entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs are pushers. They have the energy to push through the tired, and they thrive on less sleep. I love learning from them, working for them, but I’m coming to the realization that it’s okay to not be an entrepreneur. It’s okay to not be able to do a full work schedule, because I can’t do tired for very long.

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I am a very ordinary girl. I’m 24, but if you met me, you wouldn’t believe me. I am passionate about girls finding true beauty in Christ. I love peanut butter, icecream, and salad. My hobbies are cooking, baking, sharing laughs and tears with others, and sharing the fullness of joy that Christ has put in me. I love reading other blogs, and I hope that this will be a place where you can find encouragement, recipes, smiles, and joy. Click here to read more about me...